Never heard of vaping cannabis. Guess it's like bongs and similar (without the water) but I wonder how they work and how they're effectively different from, say, a pipe. Mind you, I don't know how an ordinary vape works but cannabis requires heat unless eaten, surely.
A vape would use THC oil, I assume.
yes, it generated heat, via batteries. disgusting thing as you had to clean out the ash after use.
The technological progress in getting stoned has obviously passed me by; mind you, most other things have too ! If you're heating the stuff, surely it's burning sufficiently to release tar, which to my mind = smoking it neat or via a bong etc. (unlike eating it with no tar to lungs). The cost of those machines, though; you'd need to be on sth to afford those technological methods (though the Volcano looks like a bong/simple heated jar with hose akin to a coffee maker). The mind boggles with or without experiencing these !
We can still smell it in Belsize Park to this very day ! If that was your West Hampstead days !
Belsize Park ain't West Hampstead but when I worked in the Witches' Cauldron there (Belsize Village) I was living in and around that area, and this was before my 'heady' days, so 'taint the ghost of my past.
There is no need, or reason, to use solids in a vape. Combusting solids in a vape is the same as smoking a roll-up and a damn sight more expensive and complicated. The whole point of a vape is that it uses a vial of THC infused oil and does not produce the very many harmful chemicals that a cigarette does.The technological progress in getting stoned has obviously passed me by; mind you, most other things have too ! If you're heating the stuff, surely it's burning sufficiently to release tar, which to my mind = smoking it neat or via a bong etc. (unlike eating it with no tar to lungs). The cost of those machines, though; you'd need to be on sth to afford those technological methods (though the Volcano looks like a bong/simple heated jar with hose akin to a coffee maker). The mind boggles with or without experiencing these !
The technological progress in getting stoned has obviously passed me by; mind you, most other things have too ! If you're heating the stuff, surely it's burning sufficiently to release tar, which to my mind = smoking it neat or via a bong etc. (unlike eating it with no tar to lungs). The cost of those machines, though; you'd need to be on sth to afford those technological methods (though the Volcano looks like a bong/simple heated jar with hose akin to a coffee maker). The mind boggles with or without experiencing these !
Sure that was not Robbie Williams ?
About the only harmful item in a cigarette that I can think of is tar from the cannabis; using tobacco is another aspect entirely and not one I've experienced in probably 40 years or more There may, of course, be other harmful aspects to herbal cannabis that I don't know about; possibly only released when burnt rather than ingested. After all, the effects and their duration are very different between the two long-established uses of herbal cannabis and I imagine that health risks differ too.
The smoke itself (any smoke in fact) is a respitory irritant and is associated with lung cancer and other conditions:
www.lung.org
Exactly my point, Anything respiratory apart from clean air is potentially harmful, whereas ingesting stuff isn't; it bypasses that problem to arrive at a similar result. I doubt any research has ever been done on this, but as the 'toxicity' (or not) travels to the brain via the blood stream, the route is the same as any other method.
Dynavap is an exception, they work well.
